Hello,
My husband told me, "You need to start quilting again."
He may regret that...I went fabric shopping!!! Haha!!!!
And the same day, my mom sent me a text message about how she thinks I should start quilting again and reopen my quilting business.
So...I'm going to give it a go!
I have decided to do only custom quilting services - NOT edge to edge. Yes, it costs 2.5 as much because it takes more than twice as long. I don't want to compete with the edge-to-edge services in the area. There are many that do a good job and I don't feel that is my niche or talent. It's just not my place in the market. If you need me to refer you to someone, I can.
My next quilt a long will be my version of the Jelly Roll Lone Star Quilt.
For this project, you will need 2 1/2 yard of fabric for the sashing, 2 1/2 yards of fabric for the white background and 2 jelly rolls of 20 + strips that measure 2 1/2 inches wide. I chose some gray fabrics from JoAnn's.
In the past, I have had blog fabric sponsors. Yes, I like getting free fabric, but every time my quilt pattern was chosen for publication, either by a magazine or web publishing, a fabric company sponsored my quilt. Often, I felt like the quilt was becoming too exclusive. I felt like the companies were pushing my quilts to be used with only this or that brand of fabric and I found that my readers were hunting high and low to find that exact fabric. It all felt unnecessary. I design my quilts to work in many colorways, not fabric or designer specific. You can use scraps or stuff from Walmart. Of course, the better-quality fabric, the more heirloom your quilt will be, but I have quilts made from leftovers from my grandmothers. If you take care of them, it shouldn't matter what name-brand was on the fabric.
CITATIONS AND REFERENCES.
Jellied Lone Star Quilt | modafabrics.com
My version of this quilt is originally from the "Jellied Lone Star Quilt," by TerriAnn of "Childlike Fascination.com" tutorial on the Moda fabrics blog. (Link above) I am grateful that my patterns have been published by them in the past.
This is a great tutorial, but knowing me...I have to do it MY WAY.
In reading through this original tutorial, the finished quilt was only 59 inches wide. That's just a wall hanging or a kinda-throw. It's a weird size. (Sorry, this is just me thinking...) The center Lonestar only ends up to be about 45 inches - a wall hanging or a baby blanket. There are also a lot of strips leftover if you purchase a Moda 42- piece Jelly Roll.
WHY CAN'T I MAKE IT FULL SIZE?
So...I did.
My variation of this project ends up to be 80 inches square -a nice full size quilt or queen size quilt. The real trick was using up the extra jelly roll pieces and re-calculating the setting squares and triangles to be large enough for a larger setting.
And here are some photos of some recent projects.
